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fuckthiscode Apr 23, 2026 +266

More like millions of Americans are about to discover that modern record keeping is much different than it was a 100+ years ago, but sure.

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TorqueandOpulence Apr 24, 2026 +37

I’m a 4th gen, and was able to find records pretty easily back to 5th gen, which was around mid-1800s. Beyond that it’s real murky. As it stands, my great great grandfather was never issued a birth certificate. The official record is a baptism record written in a parish journal.

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Shieldsmith55 Apr 23, 2026 +40

We were able to find a great, great grandmother's Canadian birth certificate without too much effort. Some of my family is currently in the application process.

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DinkyStubby Apr 23, 2026 +23

Note to self. Talk to my mom about this. Her grandmother was a Canadian citizen and she probably could use the comfort of a different passport about now. The world has been heavy for her since about 2000 and only getting harder in the us for the last decade

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WapsuSisilija Apr 25, 2026 +1

Getting a passport is a different process. FYI

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existing_for_fun Apr 24, 2026 +4

My wife's grandparents on one side were Canadian. For her it's not even that far back. Considering the implications of her getting dual citizenship and what it means for a spouse.

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rantingathome Apr 24, 2026 +12

It's not so much "getting" dual citizenship, but confirming it. If this applies for your wife, it means she's retroactively been Canadian the whole time, in other words already a dual citizen. More correctly, it's getting confirmation of her **existing** citizenship.

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umbananas Apr 23, 2026 +2

Seriously I applied for a reprint of my birth certificate once, the process is almost magical.

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Balmerhippie Apr 25, 2026 +1

The online Canadian records are really good. Much better than ive seen in the states. Kudos to the govt officials who built the systems.

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nicathor Apr 23, 2026 +387

*cries in multi-generational US citizen

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whitewateractual Apr 23, 2026 +97

Two of my great grandparents, when fleeing Europe, went to Canada. Then soon after the crossed the land border and went to Chicago. We never could figure out if they tried to become Canadian before coming to the US. I wonder if it’s worth reexamining now.

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rmg22893 Apr 23, 2026 +60

If they were only resident in Canada briefly, it is unlikely there's anything there. If they happened to have a child while they were in Canada, then that is a different story.

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whitewateractual Apr 23, 2026 +3

Hmm. One was born in England, so I don’t think he could have explicitly been Canadian either if I understand. His wife was Russian. I do know they came to the US before they had their first child. Oh well.

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +1

Youre right. My reading comprehension is lacking lately.

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +5

My great grandfather, and my grandmother fled Europe. Canada let them in. I found a record of their Canadian naturalization online. Also found them in a census before that. Eventually she moved to NYC and automatically lost her citizenship. Seems im in. Google Canadian natiralization records. Theyve set up a seatch function thats amazingly thorough.

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whitewateractual Apr 24, 2026 +1

Strange situation for me is at least one of my great grandparents were British and was, by the laws of the time, a default Canadian citizen when he landed. So he never “naturalized” before coming to the US (as far as we know neither his wife) because why would they? Catch 22

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +1

There are a few scenarios on the application just for Brits, Check it.

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whitewateractual Apr 24, 2026 +1

Oh? Thanks for letting me know.

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StoriesandStones Apr 24, 2026 +4

I am as well, however, even parts of my family who landed in the 1600s went up to Canada in the 1700s through the 1800s then came back down to the US, (wrong side of the revolutionary war maybe? lol idk) so I have Canadian born great or great great grandparents on both sides.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 23, 2026 -8

Dual citizen here. You arent really missing anything

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VanceKelley Apr 24, 2026 +11

You're missing: 1. Ketchup chips. 2. Poutine. 3. An existential malaise, a profound ennui, at not having won the Stanley Cup in 30+ years.

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EternalCanadian Apr 24, 2026 +6

Don’t forget: * Butter Tarts * Nanaimo Bars * Basically any and all Newfie cuisine (Toutons, Fish and Brewis, Jiggs dinner, etc) * Anything and everything the Quebecois do with Maple Syrup.

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EnemyCharizard Apr 24, 2026 +8

Basic human rights are also an asset

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MysteriousCap4910 Apr 24, 2026 +3

tiger tail ice cream

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CaptainDe Apr 24, 2026 +3

We have ketchup chips and poutine. Don’t have the third thing though.

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Hvarfa-Bragi Apr 24, 2026 +3

4. An escape plan

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026 +1

That about sums it up. Is the third bullet why Canadians are so angry and resentful all the time?

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MosesOnAcid Apr 23, 2026 +117

People searching their family trees for a single Maple leaf...

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badchefrazzy Apr 24, 2026 +5

I got cousins somewhere but I don't wanna go bothering random folk to find out.

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Scared-Hope-868 Apr 23, 2026 +28

Missed out again.

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leeharveyteabag669 Apr 24, 2026 +24

So that explains the sudden urge to drive a Zamboni.

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anthonynoriega Apr 23, 2026 +33

F****** eh, eh?

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EmotionalPizza6432 Apr 23, 2026 +7

Sorry

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anthonynoriega Apr 23, 2026

I read that in a Canadian accent. Oh boy.

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Juan-More-Taco Apr 24, 2026 +2

Fuckin' **

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anthonynoriega Apr 24, 2026 +1

Fookin? Wait, thats Irish... nevermind.

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Icy-Computer-Poop Apr 24, 2026 +1

It's "fuckin' A", eh?

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anthonynoriega Apr 24, 2026 +1

Tabarnak, yoor right eh?

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Spanky3703 Apr 23, 2026 +147

As long as they do not bring the contagion with them, happy to see people move to Canada who are net contributors.

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Incendiis Apr 23, 2026 +75

This. Our politics are already becoming a polarized joke, I don't want any more sensationalism than we already have, and we need less Conservative voters, not more.

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SolarBum Apr 23, 2026 +94

The conservatives aren't gonna be the ones fleeing to Canada to escape the fascist regime, they f****** love it.

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unfortunatebag Apr 23, 2026 +46

Nobody is fleeing to Canada in any real numbers that isn't an Indian "student" it's just not practical for the average middle class American. Every election Americans love saying this until they find out Canada actually has immigration laws. That said a lot of conservatives I know would love to live in Alberta.

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grunkfest Apr 23, 2026 +28

Lots of university professors are in fact fleeing to Canada, just like the last time Trump was president. We are receiving them with open arms and research grants. Thanks America!

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Char_da_mange Apr 23, 2026 +14

They are not fleeing. They have been recruited and with the political climate in the US being what it is makes the offer from Canadian universities that much more appealing. Professor Snyder has said exactly this.

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grunkfest Apr 23, 2026 +14

If they are choosing to leave one country for another on the basis of prejudice, persecution, and cutting of budgets, I think it's reasonable to call that fleeing. They clearly would prefer to work in the US (since that's where they were working and clearly they have choice in the matter) if their needs and wants were met, but they are not, so they are leaving for greener pastures. I guess it depends on how you define 'fleeing', I would just equate it to a dramatic way to say 'leaving' but I wouldn't argue hard either way.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026 +2

Way to devalue what an actual Refugee goes through. Choosing to take a job in another country because it works for you is not fleeing

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Dry-Chemist-2254 Apr 23, 2026 +6

Need professor of nursing?

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Wheezy_n_Breezy Apr 23, 2026 +10

I know the nursing programs up in Canada are just as under sourced as their EDs and clinics, but you might check in with these folks: [BC Healthcare Infusion](https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/man-behind-nanaimo-infusion-aims-to-help-ease-way-for-us-health-care-workers-11760397)

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unfortunatebag Apr 23, 2026 -8

>Lots It's like a handful of professors but it made for a good headline on listnook. Which makes sense because I can't imagine Canada having that massive of PhD employment gulf from America. My grad school professor used to put up a list on his door of university openings vs PhD graduates per year and that pretty well talked me out of pursuing that line of work.

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grunkfest Apr 23, 2026 +13

I work in research at UofT. It's lots. My dept alone has signed 6 full research faculty from the US in the last year alone, and unlike previous years none have moved from Canada to the US in exchange. Cool story about something you noticed on your prof's door once though.

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unfortunatebag Apr 23, 2026 -4

You seem annoyed the reality and fantasy aren't mixing. Doing a bit of research I can't find any data except a few articles about the Yale dudes which is what you're referring to above. I'm not saying your anecdotal evidence isn't compelling but all the broader context I can find just shows that interest in leaving is much higher than actual departures. I don't doubt you have young American PhDs applying though, although that wouldn't be new. Like I said the market is pretty saturated.

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grunkfest Apr 23, 2026 +9

Last post because this is you arguing with nothing for support but your (stubbornly held) opinion and a few minutes of google search results and me trying to correct you on the basis of the fact that this is the field in which I have been employed for decades. It's clear to me you don't actually have anything to contribute to the discussion on the basis of your own experience (prof's door list aside). The reality is that we don't get web news articles every time faculty change jobs, unless the university chooses to make a bragging point of it, or someone chooses to write a controversy-stirring article about it, as was done with the Yale positions. Canadian research universities are recruiting faculty cross border quietly, getting lots of them, and not bragging about it. In many cases a faculty member is accepted but nobody even knows until a year later when they actually move. Conversely, fewer and fewer Canadian faculty are taking positions south of the border at colleges or industry (Google, etc). Anyway, do with it what you will, but that's reality, and frankly it's been great for those of us that work in research in Canada.

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Overall-Phone7605 Apr 23, 2026 +5

Check out the podcast Wonk "Canada's Race to build big talent" episode from last week. It's very nerdy, has lots of facts in it. It's important to note that in December the Canadian government announced over $1 billion to attract international talent to research chairs in Canadian Universities so the 'big push' is pretty new. It's getting a lot of top tier applicants, particularly in the environmental/bio sciences who are under attack right now, especially since the two countries already share so much research between each other anyway and Canadian Universities made a huge effort to back up/save much of the research DOGE was gutting from the US servers last year. Having Yoshua Bengio in University of Montreal and Geoffrey Hinton in UofT is helping attract alternative-to-hyperscaler-AI researchers as well.

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unfortunatebag Apr 23, 2026 +1

I definitely will

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +2

Immigration laws dont apply. We are already citizens. Dont worry. I vote left.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026 +1

This doesn't have anything to do with immigration. They are natural born citizens of canada.

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Western-Corner-431 Apr 23, 2026 +2

This is false. Record numbers of Americans are leaving America

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Otterfan Apr 23, 2026 +7

And fortunately Canada does not allow you to vote if you have never lived there.

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rantingathome Apr 24, 2026 +2

However, after three months of residency, you vote in the district of your last Canadian address.

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Winter_Body4794 Apr 23, 2026 +1

Eh, the intelligent ones will, in fact, leave if they can.

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Bleatmop Apr 23, 2026 -5

Your progressives are to the right of our conservatives, generally speaking.

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SolarBum Apr 24, 2026 +1

I mean, you just made that up.

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Bleatmop Apr 24, 2026 +1

I did not. Let's take Obama at the time he was elected and compare him against Harper, the conservative PM at the time Obama was elected and compare them shall we? Healthcare: Obama for private healthcare and the legislation he passed strengthened the private health care system. Harper was strongly in favour of our universal single payer system. Gay rights: Obama openly stated marriage was between one man and one woman. Harper openly accepted gay marriage and stated that question would never be raised while he was in office. Trade: Harper was a globalist and expanded trade with China. Obama largely had protectionist policies, especially in his first term. But yeah, I guess I am making stuff up.

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Fractoos Apr 24, 2026 +3

"polarized joke"... "we need less Conservative voters" -- You sound like one of those polarized people.

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Phycosphere Apr 23, 2026 +3

We are the vaccinated ones

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bstorm83 Apr 23, 2026 +1

I should already be due to my father but he is lazy. So now I have to get my grand father’s baptismal records and have Quebec make a birth certificate… tabarnak

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SRM_Thornfoot Apr 24, 2026 +5

Did Carney just offer to make the United States the 11th province?

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TheresWald0 Apr 24, 2026 +20

As a Canadian, I really hope this doesn't bite us in the ass.

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amisslife Apr 24, 2026 +11

I mean, that's one thing that almost no one talks about with the Vietnam draft dodgers. A significant number of young, generally well-educated American men (and sometimes partners) moved to Canada. While a lot did end up going back after getting amnesty, about half stayed. But, instead of all these Americans moving to Canada making it more like the U.S., it actually made it *less* like the U.S., and strengthened what made us different. Because they liked what made us different - that's the whole reason they moved here. If significant numbers do move now (and from what I'm hearing, there is a very significant increase in applications, at least), then it's actually likely to help insulate us from what damaged the States.

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question12338338 Apr 24, 2026 +4

Exactly, if one has the ability to live in either the US or Canada, and they actively choose Canada, they are *very* unlikely doing so because they want to "make it more like the US."

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Little_Cockroach_477 Apr 24, 2026 +12

Doubtful. I just got my citizenship certificate about a month ago. From what I've read, those who are planning to move are doing so in a way that will be a net benefit to Canada. And those are a tiny fraction of those who are otherwise approved or even eligible. For most Americans, it wouldn't make financial sense, unfortunately. I do plan on moving up at some point, but it won't be immediate.

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got-trunks Apr 24, 2026 +4

when you come please bring BBQ

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026 +1

Canadians just have the worst taste in food lol. Only the Donair saves it

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got-trunks Apr 25, 2026 +2

Cheese and gravy fried potato salad not bad either

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WiFiForeheadWrinkles Apr 24, 2026 +13

Wonder if they'll wait until they need healthcare, move up here and meet the minimum residency requirements, then drain a system they never paid into

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34048615 Apr 24, 2026 +5

This is what will happen

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Antique_Extension_82 Apr 24, 2026 +6

Does having every Tragically Hip record ever made work as well for gaining Canadian citizenship?

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Taitertottot Apr 25, 2026 +2

I'll allow it.

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kaminaripancake Apr 24, 2026 +3

My grandma is Canadian but my mom never got Canadian citizenship. I wonder if I can get this. Would be worth a try

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Little_Cockroach_477 Apr 24, 2026 +6

If your grandmother was a Canadian citizen before your mother was born, then yes, you and your mother are citizens.

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kaminaripancake Apr 24, 2026 +3

Yes she was born a Canadian, moved to us and had my mom. I have to check this out!!

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Yes_Indeed Apr 25, 2026 +1

You are in the exact same boat as me. I applied for citizenship a couple months ago. If you can get a copy of your grandmother's, your mother's, and your own birth certificates you should be eligible.

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Overwatchingu Apr 23, 2026 +33

I really don’t understand this bill. We decided we had too many immigrants, so we massively cut immigration and temporary visas. Now we’re opening a direct path to citizenship that circumvents the normal “points based” immigration system where the only qualification you need is to be able to find a Canadian somewhere in your family lineage.

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MysteriousCap4910 Apr 23, 2026 +39

Canadian citizenship by descent has never had a points system. The older laws always got challenged because they were adding a generational limit after the fact (retroactively removing citizenship that was there by the Canadian constitution). This law actually has a hard limit that anyone born after dec. 2025 will have to show their parents lived in Canada for at least 3 years before their birth. So within a generation if the people getting citizenship don’t spend significant time in Canada their children will not be citizens and be cut off. This is basically correcting for older laws while giving the current descendants time to prove they actually want to contribute to Canada before the line is cut off.

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Overwatchingu Apr 24, 2026 +5

Oh I know that citizenship by descent was never points based. But now there’s more people who can claim citizenship by descent. It just seems counterproductive to me that we massively reduced the number of people coming in who have to jump through the series of hoops that is our immigration system, only to seemingly broaden the number of people who can come in based on nothing more than the circumstances of their birth.

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MysteriousCap4910 Apr 24, 2026 +12

Although this probably has some underlying political leaning, it is actually something that has been brewing for years. Under the Canadian constitution children of Canadian citizens are citizens and so on. Even if they don’t know it, they are. Every past law basically retroactively removed their ability to gain proof of citizenship which goes against the Constitution. That is why the past bills kept getting challenged and removed. This is their best compromise. The rules had been in interim all last year because they couldn’t figure it out.

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +1

Sounds MAGA to me. MCGA?

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Irr3l3ph4nt Apr 24, 2026 +3

See, this is the best timing ever to do this as MAGA has an anti-Canadian bias built-in. We're filtering out the morons because they think they're better than us.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 23, 2026 +25

It's not a path to citizenship. They are citizens already and have been from the moment they were born.

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TorqueandOpulence Apr 24, 2026 +8

The comment you’re replying to is correct. It’s not an application for new citizenship, it’s an application for the document to certify existing citizenship.

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kristina_42 Apr 23, 2026 +3

it’s the “right kind” of immigrants

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CucumberWisdom Apr 24, 2026 -7

It's not though

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RailGun256 Apr 24, 2026 +5

honestly it would be an upgrade so I wouldnt complain

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_Den_ Apr 24, 2026 +8

Cool to know that some Americans who may have never even visited Canada could be handed their passports when I'm still waiting on my PR decision 9 years into living in Canada legally!

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DracoKingOfDragonMen Apr 24, 2026 +3

9 years? Godamn. What path did you take to get PR?

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_Den_ Apr 24, 2026 +3

Go to school, qualify for a post-graduation work permit, earn enough points in the comprehensive ranking system to get an invitation to apply for PR. Finally applied in December last year, but I'm expecting the process to last for 2 years because immigration Canada will surely take issue with my current citizenship.

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SydneyBriarIsAlive Apr 23, 2026 +17

“I recently went to Australia and you know, ***first words out of the first person I talked to in Australia was basically an expletive about Trump and the U.S*****.,**” said Hicks, of Pahrump, Nevada. “It was just like, whoa, I walked off a 20-hour flight and literally the first words of somebody’s mouth to me were that. ... ***So the idea of doing that with a Canadian passport just seemed easier, better, more palatable.***” Is it me or does this comment read as dismissive? If the only reason you're getting Canadian citizenship is not to be 'bothered' while traveling, perhaps don't elect fascists?

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Teadrunkest Apr 24, 2026 +12

Yeah let me just convince the other 347,999,999 people in the US to vote the same as me.

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SydneyBriarIsAlive Apr 24, 2026 +1

I get it, I'm just highly suspicious of this person and the way they voted. If you didn't vote that way, great - then you're not as entitled as the quoted person in the article is. Also, if your news is to be believed which is fairly is questionable but still seems to carry some validity in this instance, then it seems like Trump and cronies are at least on track to lose catastrophically in the midterms which might suggest there's not a need to change as many minds since it seems he's lost a lot of folks. Definitely need to educate those people though, lest it happen again.

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Franklin_le_Tanklin Apr 24, 2026 +9

“I’d rather pretend to be of different citizenship then be confronted by the consequences of my actions” If that’s not American I don’t know what is

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FuckingColdInCanada Apr 24, 2026

Just the more complicated version of wearing our flag on their clothes when they travel abroad. You can't sit with us.

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borghe Apr 24, 2026 +4

This is me. Unfortunately I have to actually go there first. I can find online scanned birth registrations for all of my great grandfather’s siblings, his mom and his dad (my great great grandparents), and even all of their baptism records.. but not his. The only Canadian record I found of him is he’s listed as a member of the family in the 1891 census (was born in 1885), then they moved to the US in 1893-94. But even US records show rock solid links between all of the family. And I have every US vital record from his marriage in 1911 all the way down to me. His Canadian birth registration is literally all I need. I have a feeling times were tough for them right before they moved. My great great grandmother died only a few years after he was born, then they immediately moved to the US. In the 1900 US census his brother is the head of house and their dad (my great great grandfather) is a family member despite only being 55. This is Kingston, ON If anyone knows the best way of searching for this it would be a huge help. My family lived in that area apparently their whole lives for multiple generations so every single record should be there (Kingston, Frontenac County, Sydenham)

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borghe Apr 24, 2026 +1

This is Kingston, ON If anyone knows the best way of searching for this it would be a huge help. My family lived in that area apparently their whole lives for multiple generations so every single record should be there (Kingston, Frontenac County, Sydenham)

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JasonEll Apr 23, 2026 +9

Sadly, it's pretty well-documented that my family came directly from Ireland and Germany, but long enough ago to not qualify for an EU passport. (I was born in Europe but because my father was in the USAF so can't get one that way, either.)

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ExtremeSour Apr 23, 2026 +1

Why does it matter that your father was in the Air Force? Germany?

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branyon47 Apr 23, 2026

If he was born on a US base (even in another country), he was born on US soil by law.

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TatarAmerican Apr 23, 2026 +5

In Germany citizenship is tied to blood and not land, so even if he had been born outside of the base he wouldn't have received German citizenship.

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JasonEll Apr 23, 2026 +1

Different country but yeah pretty much the same.

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ExtremeSour Apr 24, 2026 +3

Just so you know, bases are not US soil. There are still just classed as is citizens born abroad

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NotBadAndYou Apr 24, 2026 +2

It's a sign of the times that when I missed the "also" in the headline on first reading, my first thought was "Oh God, what's happening now?"

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yoyoyohan Apr 24, 2026 +2

Fortunately I was born to a Canadian parent, so I’ve had both since birth

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +2

Sincere question. I am eligible. I plan to get a passport asap. Im already close to Vancouver. What might i do to learn about the history and civics of Canada?

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026 +2

Learn about the indigenous issues first.

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Balmerhippie Apr 24, 2026 +1

Recommend a resource(?) that's Canada specific. Even better BC Specific ?

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RM_r_us Apr 24, 2026 +2

Go to YouTube and watch every single Heritage Moment commercial. When you can tell me who invented basketball and what "I smell burnt toast Doctor!" means, you'll be ready.

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misinformedcapybara Apr 24, 2026 +1

dude i am a full canadian through and through and i don't know these things. my citizenship is revoked!

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MalleableCurmudgeon Apr 24, 2026 +2

It would be nice if the article actually had the new law. This is not informative at all.

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miamibeebee Apr 24, 2026 +4

Wait my ancestors are from Canada. My 5th, 6th, and 7th great grandpas were all Jean Baptiste Trudeau. That basically makes Justin Trudeau my cousin and I should totally be let in. insert Eric Andre let me in gif

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Bizarrebazaars Apr 24, 2026 +3

Hey Minnesotans are honorary Canadians anyway right….???

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Irr3l3ph4nt Apr 24, 2026 +3

If you're old blood Minnesota, there's like 20% chance one of your great grands is Canadian.

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Irr3l3ph4nt Apr 24, 2026 +3

As a French Canadian, I love that we can give a chance to those lost to the great exodus to come back. If you're one of them, your ancestors were rugged woodsmen and homestead women. People that opened wild land in the hardest conditions on the planet. One day, lumber started getting replaced with steel. Charcoal with oil. Your ancestors had two choices. Leave for the brand new American factories or be miserable. They ended up with guaranteed work in the US, but were treated as human cattle for 3 generations. There were entire French Canadian towns and counties. They were seen as ignorant, almost as c**** as black labor. Until they completely assimilated. That's where you're from.

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amisslife Apr 24, 2026 +1

Yeah, I'd actually like to see special programs to help French Canadian Americans (or even any Americans who qualify under this) to learn French and reclaim some of that heritage. Imagine if we can get more of their children, through French Immersion daycares for example, to speak French fluently. I think it's an important part of undoing some of the fucked-up past.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026

Don't forget the part where our ancestors did their level best to absolutely decimate indigenous culture and people. Don't forget that part!

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aWildCanadian Apr 23, 2026 +5

I f****** hate this bill. Absolutely opposed to this nonsense.

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SalukiKnightX Apr 24, 2026 +2

My family’s origins are from Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. As nice as Canada is (been to Gander, Newfoundland, comfortably cold in May) my kin have no ties to the country.

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Irr3l3ph4nt Apr 24, 2026 +1

Watch for a French Canadian Great Grandma or something. They were not rare in these parts.

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FxEpic Apr 24, 2026 +2

In 2002 Canada was ACTIVELY revoking Citizenship to tens of thousands of Canadians, even ones living in Canada all their lives. They became known as Lost Canadians. Now suddenly they WANT Citizens?

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MysteriousCap4910 Apr 24, 2026 +3

This bill is to fix that

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Murky-Willingness999 Apr 24, 2026 +3

Sure wish Germany, England or Scotland would do the same thing so this Canadian could gtfo of here

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DaruJericho Apr 24, 2026 +1

The UK already has this. If you already have an English or Scottish grandparent, you can apply for British citizenship

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FluffyPantsMcGee Apr 23, 2026 +2

Learn about tax obligations should you come here and then choose to leave.

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rantingathome Apr 24, 2026 +5

Canada doesn't tax foreign income when you don't reside here. The USA is one of the few countries that do that.

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Street_Anon Apr 24, 2026 +3

Or how much the overall cost of living is and they would not come here.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 24, 2026 +1

It's absolutely this right here. That in the weird socialist rules. Yeah it's nice to go to the ER and know that after an interminable 16-hour wait you're not going to owe anyAfter an interminable 16-hour wait you're not going to owe any money, but you're going to be text to shit the rest of the time and anything you want to buy will be much more expensive and usually inferior.

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MisterBlisterKisser Apr 23, 2026 +1

We need a way to repeal this if necessary.

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crpssurvivor1210 Apr 24, 2026 +1

Does it count for anyone who has a family member born in Canada?

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TorqueandOpulence Apr 24, 2026 +4

Direct descent. So parents or grandparents etc on down the line. You have to prove the link with documentation.

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crpssurvivor1210 Apr 24, 2026 +1

She left when she was a baby

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TorqueandOpulence Apr 24, 2026 +7

If she was born in Canada and you can prove it, you are Canadian in the eyes of this law.

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rantingathome Apr 24, 2026 +2

assuming she's a direct ancestor and not a cousin...

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Substantial_Sea7327 Apr 24, 2026 +1

what if my Canadian ancestor lived in Canada for 1096 days?

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rantingathome Apr 24, 2026 +2

Assuming you were born before Dec 15, 2025 that requirement doesn't apply. Born after... pretty good listnook skills for a baby under 6 months old.

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nvmenotfound Apr 24, 2026 +1

times have changed and times are strange, here i come but i ain’t the same, canada i’m coming homeee!

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MagicSPA Apr 24, 2026 +1

They come from the U.S., eh.

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AshundertheOlivetree Apr 24, 2026 +1

Haha gottem!

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philrich12 Apr 24, 2026 +1

Please let this apply to all Minnesotans..

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Ragnarawr Apr 24, 2026 +1

Why was the law passed? Low birth rates? What’s going on?

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dukenny Apr 24, 2026 +1

How'd they get so lucky?

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szabadabadooo Apr 25, 2026

Nooooooooo!!!! 😧

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Interesting-Salt1291 Apr 23, 2026 -1

…I think I qualify! Civilization, here I come!

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Hwy39 Apr 23, 2026 +2

I wish

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rompskee Apr 23, 2026 -1

Grandmother was born in Canada then moved to the states, my mom had dual citizenship as a kid but gave up her Canadian citizenship when she went to college so unfortunately I think that makes me ineligible

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fleetingwords Apr 23, 2026 +5

How exactly did she give up her citizenship? If she just got another passport that doesn’t remove it.

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rantingathome Apr 24, 2026 +3

Here's the deal. If your mom legally renounced her citizenship with the CANADIAN government before you were born, you're probably out of luck. However, if she just "renounced" it to the American government through some sort of oath, that's not official in Canada, and you and her are both citizens.

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Nuclearcakes Apr 23, 2026 +6

Did you read the article? The first paragraph talks about how people are eligible if they have a Canadian grandparent.

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branyon47 Apr 23, 2026 +2

My mom renounced her Canadian citizenship to become an American in the 80s. Even before this law, she asked them what her status was in Canada, and they said that nothing had changed on their end. She was still considered a Canadian and has access to a Canadian passport.

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firedrakes Apr 23, 2026 +1

Updated 6:03 PM EDT, April 23, 2026 its not new news...... already posted here before

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Inevitable-Eye5697 Apr 24, 2026 +1

What kind of American are you?

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[deleted] Apr 23, 2026 -4

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Good-Examination2239 Apr 23, 2026 +16

Sorry, our provinces keep electing Conservative governments who love your health care system so much, and so they are actively slashing our public funding allocated for health care. Because of that, appointment and ER wait times are actively surging pretty much everywhere across the country, so now many of them are now throwing up their hands shouting: "See???? This is why public health care doesn't work and this is why we need more privatized health care the patients can pay for." They're jerks gaslighting us, basically.

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FluffyPantsMcGee Apr 23, 2026 +5

When i lost my job i was so damn grateful our hospitals were public. Biggest expense was parking.

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Infamous-Mixture-605 Apr 24, 2026 +5

> Sorry, our provinces keep electing Conservative governments who love your health care system so much, and so they are actively slashing our public funding allocated for health care. Voters keep falling for promises to cut taxes and "find efficiencies" without appreciating where the cuts will come, and which seemingly always leads to governments screwing with healthcare, education, basic infrastructure maintenance, etc, often with negative outcomes.

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Cicer Apr 23, 2026 +4

It doesn’t help that people are going to ERs and Urgent Cares for sniffles and booboos.

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FluffyPantsMcGee Apr 23, 2026 +11

Our resources are stretched thin, we really don’t need millions of Americans coming up and joining the line.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 23, 2026 +14

You mean Canadians

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Objective_Ranger1005 Apr 23, 2026 +3

Who's gonna tell him?

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Camranauchi Apr 23, 2026 -8

Jesus Christ no, keep those fuckers out of here!

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Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 23, 2026 +5

You mean canadians? You want Canadians to stay out of canada?

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KlutzyYogurtcloset88 Apr 23, 2026 -6

So Americans ruined their country and now we're gonna let them ruin ours?

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fleetingwords Apr 23, 2026 +8

Pretty much anyone that wants to escape to Canada aren’t the ones that ruined it.

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KlutzyYogurtcloset88 Apr 24, 2026 -1

A huge part of the problem is that some people see themselves as "the good guys" and let themselves off the hook because of how they voted. You're all culpable to some extent. Trump is just a symptom. You all created (and benefited from) the culture that allowed him to thrive.

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LostWin9933 Apr 23, 2026 -12

No they f*** they are not

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thirstyrobot Apr 23, 2026

But wait! I thought this was considered a woke, liberal hellhole with nightmare healthcare and high taxes that everyone was trying to flee from.

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Cicer Apr 23, 2026 -2

Oh great…

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[deleted] Apr 23, 2026 -1

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AltDS01 Apr 23, 2026 +2

South Detroiters

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imnotslavic Apr 23, 2026 -18

Stay in your country; you voted for him, now relish in the rewards. We have enough people as it is.

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Mammoth_Newt5148 Apr 23, 2026 +8

Not all of us voted for him

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